The number of road motor vehicle registrations in Turkey increased by 1.8% in September 2020 compared with the previous month

Regarding the vehicle registrations in September, cars accounted for 51.7%, followed by motorcycles 22.6%, small trucks 16.4%, tractors 5.1%, trucks 2.5%, minibus 0.7%, special purpose vehicles 0.6% and buses 0.4%.

The number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 1.8% compared with the previous month

In September, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 49.2%, 26.8%, 16.7%, 16.1%, 5.2% for trucks, small trucks, special purpose vehicles, tractors and minibuses while it decreased by 15.8%, 6.2%, and 3.3% for buses, motorcycles and cars respectively.

The number of road motor vehicles registered increased by 101.6% compared with the same month of the previous year

In September, compared with the same month of the previous year, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 1360.0%, 271.1%, 256.4%, 104.2%, 90.3%, 65.3%, 18.6% and 11.0% for special purpose vehicles, trucks, small trucks, tractors, cars, motorcycles, minibuses and buses respectively.

At the end of September, the total number of road motor vehicles registered reached 23 million 854 thousand 820

At the end of September, cars represented 54.1%, small trucks 16.3%, motorcycles 14.6%, tractors 8.1%, trucks 3.6%, minibuses 2.1%, buses 0.9% and special purpose vehicles 0.3% of total number of road motor vehicles registered.

916 thousand 48 road motor vehicles handed over in September

Among vehicles handed over⁽¹⁾ in September, cars accounted for 70.7% followed by small trucks 15.5%, motorcycles 6.1%, tractors 2.9%, trucks 2.2%, minibuses 2.0%, buses 0.5% and special purpose vehicles 0.1%.

In September, 54 thousand 705 cars were registered to the traffic  

In terms of the distribution of trademarks for the new registered cars in September, Fiat recorded 20.3%, Renault 17.4%, Toyota 8.6%, Volkswagen 6.1%, Skoda 4.8%, Hyundai 4.7%, Ford 4.6%, Honda 3.8%, Nissan 3.3%, Seat 3.0%, Peugeot 2.9%, BMW 2.5%, Audi 2.5%, Opel 2.4%, Mercedes-Benz 2.4%, Kia 2.4%, Dacia 2.2%, Citroen 2.1%, Volvo 0.8%, Jeep 0.6% and the other trademarks 2.8% of the total.

In the period of January-September total road motor vehicles in traffic increased by 736 thousand 543

In January-September period compared to the same period of previous year, the number of registered vehicles increased by 55.9% and became 736 thousand 543, while the number of withdrawn road motor vehicles decreased by 82.6% and became 35 thousand 995. Hence, in the period of January-September the increase in motor vehicles registered became 700 thousand 548.

In the period of January-September the ratio of cars registered using gasoline was 49.6%

Among 409 thousand 538 cars registered in the period of January-September, the share of gasoline-fuelled cars was 49.6% followed by diesel-fuelled cars with 41.7%, LPG-fuelled cars with 5.6% and electric or hybrid cars with 3.1%. At the end of September, among 12 million 907 thousand 648 registered cars, the share of diesel-fuelled cars was 38.3% followed by LPG-fuelled cars with 37.0% and gasoline-fuelled cars with 24.3%. The share of electric or hybrid cars was 0.2% and the cars with unknown⁽²⁾ fuel type was 0.3%.

Most frequent engine size was 1401-1500 for registered cars in the period of January-September

Within 409 thousand 538 cars registered to traffic in January-September period, 30.9% had 1401-1500, 24.9% of them had engine size 1501-1600, 23.3% had 1300 or less, 14.4% had 1301-1400, 5.5% had 1601-2000, 0.9% had 2001 and above.

In the period of January-September 196 thousand 592 of cars registered were white 

Within 409 thousand 538 cars registered to traffic in January-September period, 48.0% of them were white, 26.5% were grey, 7.1% were blue, 7.0% were black, 6.9% were red, 1.6% were orange, 1.4% were brown, 0.7% were yellow, 0.2% were green and 0.6% were in other colours.

The next release on this subject will be on 27 November, 2020. 
                                                                                                                                                                                      

EXPLANATIONS

(1) Road motor vehicles handed over are that the owners of them had changed through the notaries for one time or more.

(2) Unknown includes the cars for which the type of fuel field in the license was entered incorrectly or left blank.